Google the Giant
To Gmail, Most Black Lives Matter Emails Are“Promotions”
Google shuffled mass emails about racial justice into the marketing tab in our test, mirroring its categorization of politicalemails
Adrianne Jeffries
Investigative Reporter
Adrianne Jeffries works with the data journalism team to discover and tell stories about inequality, examine the power platforms exert, and explore the consequences of automating decisions.
Before joining The Markup, she worked as a reporter for The Verge, as managing editor at Motherboard, and as an editor and reporter at The Outline. She started writing about tech a decade ago as a reporter for what was then called ReadWriteWeb, and has also freelanced for The New York Times, Businessweek, and Zero Point Zero Production.
Adrianne can be reached on Signal at (614) 347-9853.
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Google the Giant
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